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COOLIE for FALCON/MIG/HORNET
Version 1.02
By: Ken "Stinger" Richardson
UID: [70761,301]
COOLIE is a Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR) program that will
work with the ThrustMaster FCS allowing you to program the "Coolie Hat" and
Buttons 3 and 4 to any keystroke on the keyboard, (including SHFT/CTRL/ALT
keys). You can also program "double-click" funtions to any button or hat
position. For example: By default the Hat is programmed to switch between
forward, back, right and left views depending on what direction you push it.
If you push the Hat up twice, it will switch to Padlock view.
To program your FCS, I supplied a small program called COOLKEY.COM. This
program will ask you to press which keystroke you want for each Hat position
and Button. After you make your keystroke selections, it will write a file
named COOLIE.CFG. This file must be in the same directory as COOLIE.COM
when you load it. If COOLIE can't find the COOLIE.CFG file, it assumes
you want to use the defaults and returns an error code.
No modification is required to the Host program. Simply run the COOLIE
program, or use LOADHIGH to load it into high memory. The first step is to
calibrate your Coolie Hat. Just follow the on-screen instructions, this only
takes a few seconds. Next COOLIE will check to see if the COOLIE.CFG file
is available, if so it will program the Hat and Buttons. After COOLIE is
loaded it will automatically check to see if a Host is running. If a Host is
running it will automatically "attach" itself. If a Host is not running, it
will simply lay dormant in memory until it senses a Host. To Un-install
COOLIE, just execute the COOLIE.COM program a second time. This will
remove the TSR from memory. One other thing you should do is select JOYSTICK
from the CONFIG screen instead of THRUSTMASTER. Also, answer NO when you are
asked if you wish to calibrate external throttle during joystick calibration.
COOLIE also has a feature that will allow you to remap your COM3 and COM4
ports to COM1 and COM2 respectively. This will allow people to connect
in one of the communications modes, using COM3 or COM4. To enable the
COM port remap feature, add the /3 or /4 switch after typing COOLIE. For
example: Type COOLIE /3 to remap COM3 to COM1
or COOLIE /4 to remap COM4 to COM2
COOLIE will work for all versions of Falcon 3.0 after version 3.02, all
versions of MiG-29 after version 1.01, and all versions of Hornet from
Spectrum Holobyte. COOLIE will return the following ERRORLEVEL's for BATCH
file processing: ERRORLEVEL 1 = Configuration file not loaded
ERRORLEVEL 2 = Calibration Error
This utility is not supported by Spectrum Holobyte in any way so if
you experience any problems contact me via Compuserve EMail or the MODEMGAMES
forum on Compuserve (GO MODEMGAMES).
-Enjoy!
Stinger
File list:
COOLIE.COM - Padlock TSR itself. This file must be loaded before
running the simulators.
COOLIE.TXT - This file.
COOLKEY.COM - The "programming" program.